Triple Murder Trial With A Twist

A central Missouri police officer has testified in court how he handled a man who was both a triple-murderer and a police informant.

A highway patrol sergeant says one thing he did was suggest the suspect move to keep from being killed himself. .

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports 26-year-old Joshua Maylee from Holts Summit had acted as a confidential informant until six weeks before the triple killings.

Maylee is set to be tried in September on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault.

Two of the victims, Eugene Pinet and Jeffrey Werdehausen, were allegedly involved in a rural theft ring with Maylee. He’s accused of killing Pinet and his wife, Jackie, at their Holts Summit home and Werdehausen at his Callaway County home.